Jon Cronin’s Stream Of Consciousness

More: http://ameliechabannes.com

Last night was amazing! The new Stephan Stoyanov Gallery (aka Luxe) on Orchard street is an incredible space. Nestled in on the first block of Orchard above Canal, on arrival, the street was glowing with art lovers and the artists whom they adore. The opening of Marie Maillard was beautiful, hypnotic and exceptional. The clear blue light and stunning imagery mixed with ethereal sounds produced a feeling of floating on a cloud, made just for you. After this initial transformation, the gallery space leads you down the stairs to the "secret" second gallery where the contrasts are strong. Brick walls, industrial appliances and a crowd that rivals any speakeasy in the time of prohibition. The cozy, homespun, creative feeling encountered brings us to a different time. A different feeling. A place where the art speaks to each of us and provides us with a much needed break from the white walls of the outside scene. Enjoy!

 

LUXE/ STEPHAN STOYANOV GALLERY   29 Orchard  Street, New York, NY 10002 M: 646 407 2932  http://www.luxegallery.net  

Luxe Gallery has moved and is changing its name. Having vacated its Stanton Street premises, the gallery is now located at 29 Orchard Street, Lower East Side, where its collaboration with the French Institute Alliance Francaise—Marie Maillard’s Wall 0909—is currently on view. At the conclusion of the show, the gallery will take the name of its director of seven years, Stephan Stoyanov, and resume its program of group and solo shows of gallery artists.

Please join the gallery for it's inaugural reception celebrating Marie Maillard's exhibition WALL 0909 on Wednesday September 9th from 6 until 8pm at 29 Orchard Street between Hester and Canal on the Lower East Side.

For Immediate Release: 
Marie Maillard 

  « WALL 0909 » 
 
At a time of radical evolution in our information society, Marie Maillard transcribes the futures of an image that suddenly emerges in reality in order to reshape it. She anticipates the consequences of virtual reality’s intrusion in the day-to-day spaces of our lives. Her artworks test the becoming-image of our realities.

  With the new century came the age of the iconocrash. This confrontation between heterogeneous and apparently incompatible regimes of representation is based on an imaging principle at the heart of the functioning of hypermodernity. Reality generates its own representations in a continuous and simultaneous flow. In this context in which the image goes so far as to anticipate the event in order to engender a heightened reality, the frameworks of our lives are reshaped in terms of their physical and perceptual coordinates.

  Maillard’s Video-Wallpaper expresses the idea of an inhabitable, enveloping image that moves beyond the screen to take over architectural space. It is no longer an image that is looked at or read but rather an image one inhabits. The image is superimposed over reality, redefining it aesthetically.

  The artist’s collaborations with Jean Nouvel display this incorporating of the image into the experience of the contemporary city. The architectural building becomes a disseminator of an image that creates an interaction with its immediate environment while making it part of the atmospheric ambiance. Maillard’s works filter reality live in order to give back a representation of it that is informed by digital protocols.

  A similar effect appears in her photographs, where the pixels are stretched and elongated one by one to produce an extruded image, like an acceleration of iconic cells, offering a representation of the new digital horizon.

  Maillard’s chair and table sculptures seem to be infected with a virus generating the proliferation of bubbles on their surfaces, like a swelling of the object that reveals the vitality of the atoms composing it.

  Through these intrusions of an image that is endowed with an intelligence all its own, Marie Maillard introduces a doubt into our understanding of what distinguishes virtualities from realities. Welcome to the enigma of the virtual.
 
Pascal Beausse

--
Romina Djelosevic
Gallery Manager

Luxe/ Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
29 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
T: 646 407 2932
M: 310 877 6904
E: galleryluxe@gmail.com
http://www.luxegallery.net

Le Poisson Rouge (LPR) 158 Bleeker New York, NY Manhattan, NY Sun., June 21, 2009 7pm Description: BlueNefertiti’s Paris @ Night, a French Cabaret Presented by LPR & The Butterfly Network. SPECIAL EDITION w/ Cucu Diamantes, Queen GodIs, Rhythmic Fusion f/ Malik Alston, WiseGuy & Gaston, DJ Super Jaimie, Visuals & Set by Amelie Chabannes and Antonia Dias Liete Paris@Night is truly a tour de force! BlueNefertiti is stunning to the eye, mesmerizing to the ear and soothing to the soul. Do not miss this sexy show!” — Thembisa S. Mshaka, Author, Put Your Dreams First: Handle Your [entertainment] Business. A nü creation from Célia Faussart of the Afropean duo Les Nubians, Paris@Night explores the intricate nature of LOVE and the affinitive relationship between jazz, funk, soul, house, drum’n'bass, samba, and hip hop. BlueNefertiti’s vocal styling is founded in the eloquence of Edith Piaf, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, and Minnie Ripperton; the sophistication of Joao Gilberto; and the vocal landscaping of Bobby McFerrin. She began singing professionally with her older sister in France during the mid 1990’s; later forming the Grammy-nominated internationally renowned singing duo Les Nubians. After 10 years in the business, a myriad of encounters, recordings and awards, she is now outwardly expressing her inner workings… a cabaret style performance project aptly named Paris@Night. The show is an unconventional mélange of ingenious originals and innovative renditions of Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Herbie Hancock, Josephine Baker, Miriam Makeba, Dave Brubeck… an exhilarating soundtrack to the bi-lingual narrative of her love triangle with Cameroon, Paris and New York City. Paris@Night is a refreshing, intriguing and interactive show that has gained recognition as one of New York’s hottest new spectacles.

LUXE Gallery Presents: ANTONIA’S LINE, Antonia Dias Leite LUXE GALLERY: 53 Stanton Street (between Eldridge & Forsythe) New York, NY 10002 HOURS: Wednesday- Saturday 11-6p, Sunday 12- 6p ARTIST RECEPTION: Friday June 19, 2009 6-8p LUXE Gallery is delighted to present the first solo exhibition by New York and Rio de Janeiro-based artist Antonia Dias Leite entitled, ANTONIA’S LINE. The new video works, Mildred’s Farewell and Miroir, Miroir, will screen at Luxe Gallery from June 19 – July 25, 2009.   Miroir, Miroir is short and sweet. A pointed work that digs deep into our definition of beauty and comes up laughing.  We see the artist seated at a cosmetic littered vanity, reflected in several mirrors.   She gradually applies make-up, growing more alluring with each line until she begins to use broad almost violent strokes, blackening her eyes and drawing a huge red ridiculous mouth.   She looks as if she is mimicking a young child at mother’s dressing table except her movements betray a knowing exasperation.  Finally, in a what seems a bitter capitulation, she rubs it all together, her expression stone then mocking. A carnivalesque soundtrack fades in at this point in the piece adding to the vaudevillian air.   So, it is a bit of a sinister laugh, as the beautiful artist stares through a clown-like mask, face a smear of red and black, into a mirror and our culpability; her ridicule deftly reflecting our own. With manic sensuality, Mildred’s Farewell weaves in and out of abstraction, disintegrating and reconstituting seamlessly in a total act of ambiguity, lusciously brushing away our rigid categories.   Floating in timeless, hidden places, figures, faces and bodies reveal themselves awash in light.  Textures we barely recognize hint at objects and then transform away, gathering up the reality of impermanence with a lawless combination of matter and non-matter.  Dias Leite’s mountainous intimacy lulls us and then turns wrathful giving us a slight finger waving at our assumption of trajectory and anything sound and steady.  Very minimal tones and sounds add to this exposition on the transient, her myth of presence.  And Antonia leads us through her tale of that myth like an aesthetic Dickens’ ghost, cradling us in memory and then violating us with existence. Mildred’s Farewell skewers presence and absence with a visceral tactility that posits the anachronistic showdown of mind and body as a raveled earthly whole.  Antonia Dias Leite questions our instincts as well as our reasoned justifications for distancing ourselves from them.

LUXE GALLERY   53 Stanton Street, New York, NY 10002 T: 212 582 4425   www.luxegallery.net

Despite the retail fiasco going on out there, ISAORA has managed to emerge from the snow covered slopes of Aspen Fashion Week super successful. Marc Daniels has informed me that "hope" is in the air and that things are heating up for them. Don't take his word for it, take a look at all of the press coverage and bloggers spreading the good news far and wide! Hypebeast High Snobiety Hope/Glory Urban Promoter ImFlashy Diamond-Surplus Aspen Daily News Don't Bet on Me For more information check out their blog!

Last night was a dance filled night at the Beatrice Inn. The crowd was rocking and the place was packed. This party was exceptional because it was truly a dance party. None of this drink and talk new york style party crap but fun, good times and lots of happy people.Click on the photo to see more party shots.